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Shooters Arjun Babuta and Tilottama Sen qualify for Olympics
India has now secured 10 quota spots in shooting for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Arjun Babuta / (Image - Olympics/website)
After winning silver in the men's and women's 10m air rifle categories, respectively, at the Asian Shooting Championships 2023 in Changwon, the Republic of Korea, on Friday, Arjun Babuta and Tilottama Sen guaranteed India two more Olympic tickets for Paris 2024.
Ten Olympic quotas in shooting have now been acquired by India, including the full allocation of two slots per gender for the 10m air rifle events. Paris 2024 quotas had already been acquired by men's air rifle competitor Rudrankksh Patil and women's air rifle competitor Mehuli Ghosh.
Olympic qualifying takes place in 2023 at the Asian Shooting Championships, which will go to Paris in 2024. There are 24 Olympic quotas available, with a position guaranteed for their national teams for the top two finishers (one from each country) in each of the 12 Olympic shooting events.
In the qualification round, Arjun Babuta, 24, shot the highest score of 633.4, while Divyansh Singh Panwar came in third with 632.3. Babuta shot 251.2 in the final, trailing only Sheng Lihao of the People's Republic of China—a silver medallist from Tokyo 2020—who shot 252.1. With 209.6, India's Divyansh Singh Panwar placed fourth, and Japan's Naoya Okada secured the bronze medal with 230.6.
Hriday Hazarika placed 21st in qualifying with a score of 626.7. With a total score of 1892.4, Arjun Babuta, Divyansh Singh Panwar, and Hriday Hazarika defeated China to take the top spot in the men's team 10m air rifle category and win the gold medal.
In the women’s 10m air rifle event, the 15-year-old Tilottama Sen shot 630.5 to finish sixth in qualifying before managing 252.3 in the final to settle for silver.
In the mixed team skeet event, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, a silver medallist in the Asian Games 2023, and Darshna Rathore, an Indian athlete, won a gold medal after defeating Kuwait 40-37 in the gold medal match.
India advanced to the gold medal final by defeating Korea and Qatar in a shoot-off, whereas Kuwait won the qualification round with a score of 140.
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